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    copied!<p>I am having some trouble exporting a CSV file using fputcsv. The file downloads but it is blank. I have tried exporting to xls and it works perfectly but I wanted to use csv with custom field headers as shown in code below. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if I need to have any php.ini changes done. I know I have fopen enabled but the file is about 6.5mb of database information.</p> <p>Thanks in advance!</p> <pre><code>$colnames = array( 'forDepts' =&gt; "Member No.", 'clientId' =&gt; "Date joined", 'createdOn' =&gt; "Title", 'createdBy' =&gt; "First name", 'description' =&gt; "Notes" ); function map_colnames($input) { global $colnames; return isset($colnames[$input]) ? $colnames[$input] : $input; } function cleanData(&amp;$str) { if($str == 't') $str = 'TRUE'; if($str == 'f') $str = 'FALSE'; if(preg_match("/^0/", $str) || preg_match("/^\+?\d{8,}$/", $str) || preg_match("/^\d{4}.\d{1,2}.\d{1,2}/", $str)) { $str = "'$str"; } if(strstr($str, '"')) $str = '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $str) . '"'; $str = mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-16LE', 'UTF-8'); } // filename for download $filename = "website_data_" . date('Ymd') . ".csv"; header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\""); header("Content-Type: text/csv; charset=UTF-16LE"); $out = fopen("php://output", 'w'); $flag = false; $result = mysql_query("SELECT forDepts, clientId, createdOn, createdBy, description FROM notes") or die('Query failed!'); while(false !== ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))) { if(!$flag) { // display field/column names as first row fputcsv($out, array_keys($row), ',', '"'); $flag = true; } array_walk($row, 'cleanData'); fputcsv($out, array_values($row), ',', '"'); } fclose($out); exit; </code></pre>
 

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